>On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:02:17 GMT, Joe <avoidingspam@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>>A slight overreaction, perhaps?  Seeing caskets coming home from Iraq
>>makes me want to puke.

>Understandable overreaction to the small number of losses compared to
>how many were lost in a single day in New York City; or the number of
>GI's who were killed during the "official" 10 years of Vietnam
>(roughly 5800 per year average), or even the number killed in a single
>battle during the American Civil War. And, would you have felt the
>same of those who fought in WWII, or would you rather be speaking
>Japanese or German today?

> I suppose it would be better in your view that those coffins be
>filled with family, friends, and neighbors right here on the streets
>of the USA, rather than try to turn things around before they can do
>it again? Or that the numbers of GI's killed every year in training
>accidents; training to do just what they are doing now; serves a
>higher purpose.

>Many of the families of those who have died say that they died doing
>something they believed in and supported.  Apparently a lot of Iraqi
>people believe in it, too, for, in the face of deaths they need not
>risk, they are willing to stand up to the terrorists. Look how many
>Iraqi policemen have died, and yet many more are willing to take their
>place and risk death.

>It was a very small group of men who stood against tyranny and incited
>others which led to the Revolutionary War and the freedoms this nation
>enjoys. They could not do it alone. Had the colonists not had the
>support of the French who provided supplies, munitions, etc, as well
>as volunteers, there would likely be no USA.

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